How Can I Automatically Dismiss a Message Box After a Specified Length of Time?

re: How Can I Automatically Dismiss a Message Box After a Specified Length of Time?

Jose — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:06:26 GMT

@David Ur right but u forgot the part ppl will forget to do.

Open a new notepad file and then enter the text

Wscript.timeout = 1

MsgBox "Custom Text",vbCritical,"Custom Title"

Then Save As: Name.vbs

re: How Can I Automatically Dismiss a Message Box After a Specified Length of Time?

David — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:03:39 GMT

Or You could just do this!

Wscript.timeout = 1

MsgBox "Custom Text",vbCritical,"Custom Title"

re: How Can I Automatically Dismiss a Message Box After a Specified Length of Time?

chaitu — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:35:15 GMT

I want to close the pop up box automatically without performing any action.

I neeed a shell script for this. That should work in win 2000

Kindly do the need..

re: How Can I Automatically Dismiss a Message Box After a Specified Length of Time?

Ed Wilson — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:49:16 GMT

@Just a coda great point. One thing to keep in mind, is that in VBScript, wshYesNoDialog is not a defined constant. In VBScript it si VBYesNo, and VBQuestion. These are documented on MSDN msdn.microsoft.com/.../t1ft6yf3(VS.85).aspx

re: How Can I Automatically Dismiss a Message Box After a Specified Length of Time?

Just a coda — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:16:32 GMT

system modal works like msgbox

There is two nType values missing here: Application modal and System modal.

Those are identical to msgbox function, 0 for application modal and 4096 for system modal.

So the example from above would be:

intReturn = objShell.Popup("Do you want to delete this file?", _

10, "Delete File", wshYesNoDialog + wshQuestionMark + 4096)

This will pop up on top of whatever you're doing and take focus.

re: How Can I Automatically Dismiss a Message Box After a Specified Length of Time?

Khursheed Fateh — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:28:38 GMT

Nice script and good thing is it is working here on my pc running xp and opening new window on many uses of it :)

re: How Can I Automatically Dismiss a Message Box After a Specified Length of Time?

Ted W — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:43:47 GMT

I can get the popup to time out after 1 second, but no higher.

Is it an XP thing or did M$ mess it up with an update?

re: How Can I Automatically Dismiss a Message Box After a Specified Length of Time?

Bill Lake — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:15:23 GMT

But unlike msgbox, objShell.popup isn't "always on top", and so all I get is a blinking notice on my taskbar, and I can't see the popup. Or, in other words, "it ain't modal."

Now what, Scripting Guy?